100% Mencia, Ribeira Sacra, Galicia, SP.
Cepa Vella opens with a bright and expressive nose of ripe cherries and warm spice, leading to a juicy, vibrant palate with refreshing acidity, loaded with pure fruit, depth, and charm.
Abadía da Cova is a fourth-generation family winery on the banks of the Miño River in Galicia’s Ribeira Sacra wine region. Today, the winery is led by siblings Paloma and Adrián Rodríguez Moure and their cousin José Moure, who all grew up surrounded by the steep, vine-covered slopes where their family has been making wine for over a century. Abadía da Cova takes its name from an abbey, or abadía, that once stood in the local village.
Cepa Vella is the result of a collaboration with a small group of local growers with whom they have developed deep relationships over decades, helping them to transition to organic and sustainable methods of grapegrowing. Vineyards are located in two distinct subzones of Ribeira Sacra: Ribeiras do Miño, where over 40-year-old vines grow on south-facing, predominantly granite slopes at 400 meters ASL, and Quiroga-Bibei, where 30+ year-old vines are planted on south-facing slate slopes at 300 meters ASL.